Children’s Health Defense Blames Israeli Doctors for Measles Deaths
As many people know, there has been a rather large, ongoing measles outbreak in Israel, with a recent report of another child dying.
So, how are anti-vaccine influencers reacting to the news of seventeen, mostly unvaccinated, mostly otherwise healthy children dying in Israel with measles?
They are responding just as they always do during every other outbreak - pushing the idea that most of those getting measles were vaccinated, that they had chronic health problems, that they didn’t really die because of measles, and of course, that a vaccine strain is causing the outbreak.
Children’s Health Defense Blames Israeli Doctors for Measles Deaths
Of course, none of that is true!
“So there’s been no strain or genotype reported. So strain A is generally the vaccine, the ones we usually see are B or D and we don’t know, we have no clue as to what the strain is.”
Suzanne Humphries on Measles Panic in Israel
Anti-vaccine influencers bring this up all the time, even though there has never been a vaccine strain of measles that has caused an outbreak.
And we have very detailed reports on each and every child who died in this outbreak.
Reports that include their vaccination status and previous health history.
“The Ministry of Health reports that an 11-month-old baby with no underlying health conditions, who had not been vaccinated, died today due to complications from measles. Among the 12 other deaths, most were healthy infants without underlying conditions who were also unvaccinated.”
11-Month-Old Baby Dies from Measles Complications
Reports that Polly Tommey doesn’t seem to believe though, as if she thinks that the Ministry of Health in Israel is lying to everyone …
“Of the other 16 deaths, most of the deceased were otherwise healthy and infants and children with no underlying conditions who were as always, they say, not vaccinated, whatever that means.”
Polly Tommey on Measles Panic in Israel
What is even more shameful though, is that in addition to minimizing all of these deaths, Polly Tommey and Suzanne Humphries actually seems to be blaming the deaths on the Israeli doctors taking care of these children and not simply on the fact that they have a life-threatening disease.
They actually think that the patients might have been turned away from hospitals because they were unvaccinated or could have been given a measles vaccination, even though they already had measles.
What else?
For some reason, Suzanne Humphries brings Alexander Langmuir into this, cherry-picking a quote that she thinks helps her, but leaving out that he was very much in favor of measles vaccines!
And in reaction to 17 kids dying in Israel, Suzanne Humphries brought up the Brady Brunch measles episode.
She doesn’t mention that when the Brady Bunch measles episode aired in 1969, a measles vaccine had already been available for several years and deaths from measles had remarkably dropped.
“There’s something going on wrong in my opinion, somewhere in either in society or in the hospitals or in the reporting.”
Suzanne Humphries on Measles Panic in Israel
Suzanne Humphries even pushes the idea that having measles has benefits…
What it does, if you survive, is cause a kind of immune amnesia though!
“In this particular case in Israel, I think that there’s probably a lack of awareness of nutrition, of the benefits of sunlight. And look, I mean, let’s be fair here, like, Israel’s a bit of a desert. I’ve never been there, but I imagine that when you do get out in the sun, it can get real. And I’m pretty sure that ultra Orthodox people aren’t going to be going out like I do with almost nothing on to get as much of their body tanned as possible. And they may not be putting their children out into the sun. They may not know how to do it in a healthy, safe way.”
Suzanne Humphries on Measles Panic in Israel
She blames everything for these deaths except the simple fact that measles can be deadly if you are not vaccinated!
It’s no coincidence!
If you are unvaccinated, you have a much greater risk of getting sick and dying when you catch a life-threatening disease for which there is no cure.
Today’s tip - stop listening to people like Polly Tommey and Suzanne Humphries and you will be at less at risk to be unvaccinated!
A careful review of Dr. Humphries CV rveals she had solid training graduating from a good medical school, residency and felllowship. Her academic production is negligible however with only one peer reviewed paper and no formal faculty appointments. 12 years after competing training while practicing as a nephrologist, her career took a major change. It appears she left practice. This is a very unusual pattern. For a mid career MD to abruptly leave practice a the peak of a career suggests something untoward happened.
This same pattern is common among anti-vax physicians. I would love to know more about Dr. Humphries abrupt career change in 2011.
Dr. Suzanne Humphries, MD is a U.S. physician best known today as a former nephrologist (kidney specialist) who later became a prominent and controversial figure in the vaccine debate.
Here’s a clear, fact-based breakdown of her background:
🩺 Medical training & career
Medical degree:
MD from Temple University School of Medicine (1993)
Residency:
Internal Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center / Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Fellowship:
Nephrology at Hahnemann / Drexel University College of Medicine (1996–1998)
Board certification:
Internal Medicine
Nephrology
Clinical career:
Practiced as an internist and nephrologist from ~1989 to 2011 in hospital settings
Also taught and worked in academic settings as an assistant professor (per multiple biographical summaries)
📉 Departure from conventional medicine
Around 2011, she left hospital practice voluntarily
Since then, she has:
Focused on researching vaccines, immunity, and medical history
Given lectures internationally
Written books and maintained a public platform
📚 Publications & public role
Co-author of the book:
“Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History” (2013)
Has also written an autobiography and speaks on:
Vaccines
Vitamin C
Functional / alternative medicine topics
⚠️ Current reputation & controversy
She is widely described as:
A leading voice in the anti-vaccine movement
Her views include claims that:
Vaccines are less effective or safe than mainstream science states
Historical disease declines were due more to sanitation than vaccination
These positions are:
Strongly disputed by the scientific and public health community, with multiple fact-checks noting that many of her claims are unsupported or contradicted by evidence
🧭 Bottom line
Legitimate credentials:
Fully trained, board-certified internist and nephrologist with years of hospital experience
Career shift:
Left mainstream medicine in 2011
Current role:
Public commentator and author focused on vaccine skepticism
Status in medicine today:
Considered outside the mainstream scientific consensus, especially on vaccines
Here’s a careful, evidence-based answer based on PubMed/NIH-indexed literature and verifiable sources.
📚 Peer-reviewed publications by Dr. Suzanne Humphries (MD)
🔎 What shows up in indexed databases (PubMed / journals)
After searching biomedical databases, there are very few verifiable peer-reviewed publications clearly attributable to Suzanne Humphries, MD (the nephrologist).
✔️ Confirmed (likely same individual)
“Low dietary magnesium is associated with insulin resistance…”
Journal: American Journal of Hypertension (1999)
Topic: Magnesium intake and insulin resistance
Affiliation: MCP Hahnemann University, Philadelphia
👉 This appears to be the only clearly indexed, traditional peer-reviewed research paper tied to her during her clinical/academic period.
⚠️ Not peer-reviewed research (but sometimes cited)
These are often confused with “publications” but are not original peer-reviewed studies:
BMJ rapid response (2012)
This is a commentary/letter, not a peer-reviewed research article
Books (e.g., Dissolving Illusions)
Books are not peer-reviewed scientific publications
❗ What you do not find
No clear record of:
Clinical trials
Large cohort studies
Basic science publications
Nephrology-focused research papers indexed in PubMed under her name
⚠️ Important caveat (name confusion)
There are many “Humphries/Humphreys” authors in PubMed, but:
Most are different individuals (e.g., Benjamin Humphreys, Romney Humphries)
These are active academic researchers, but not Suzanne Humphries, MD
🧭 Bottom line (very direct)
Verified peer-reviewed output:
👉 Extremely limited (likely 1 identifiable paper from 1999)
No evidence of:
A substantial research portfolio
Ongoing academic publication record
Leadership in peer-reviewed vaccine or immunology research
Current influence:
Comes from books, talks, and media, not peer-reviewed science